Category: Issue 32

“CINEMAS OF RESISTANCE” Smyth Brothers: NEWS FROM THE SUN, 16mm in-camera edit, 3 min, 2017. An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through the words of The Sun, a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Four thousand single frames were exposed,…

Issue #32, Spring 2017 “Cinemas of Resistance” Welcome to Issue #32, “Cinemas of Resistance”! This issue takes a brief, but substantial look at the making of archives, cinema histories, fragile images, and cinematic and film/video art works which deal with…

by Molly Hankwitz Microcinemas, as artistic social networks, guerrilla experimental spaces of resistance to dominant media, and for an intimate expression of cinema are of great personal interest to me. I ran a microcinema in Brisbane, Australia for ten weeks…

by Lynne Sachs • February 6, 2017 • Comments Off on This Camera Fights Fascism:A Personal Survey of Cinemas of Resistance

by Lynne Sachs It’s been one horrible beginning of the year in America, and as you read this piece you will certainly know more than I do about the first few days, weeks, months and (aargh!) years of a Trump…

by Shelby Shaw I began working in the film industry while studying film and video at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, renowned for its conceptual approach to art. In this way I was receiving both a DIY-underground…

by Marc Olmsted via GIPHY In 1979, film critic Robin Wood collected his essays on the horror films of that time and called his book American Nightmare. His thesis examined how the traditional horror film enacted the Freudian “return…

by Joseph Dwyer Scenarios of worker and student strikes, mass protest, and general dissent became common sights in European cinema surrounding the international political unrest of 1968. Jean-Luc Godard directed La Chinoise and Weekend, both 1967. Pier Paolo Pasolini took…

by David Cox Into the Zone [yet to be released] is directed by John Alloway. This interview took place in Oakland, CA, November 20, 2017 with John Law, Carrie Galbraith, David Cox, and Molly Hankwitz at John Law’s studio in…

by Anna Spence From the murky depths of blackness appears Max Headroom, floating to the surface. Suddenly, his decayed visage snaps into place where it always should have been: on screen. Out of practice, it takes him a moment…

by Dan Browne • February 6, 2017 • Comments Off on Notes on the Fragile Image

by Dan Browne I would like to provide a brief sketch of a concept I am calling ‘the fragile image’. I feel this could be of use in today’s climate of intensely politicized communication, as it resists the urge towards…

by Gerry Fialka and Will Nediger Like Craig Baldwin, Raoul Peck incites new questions to ponder with challenging juxtapositions like the lovely song Fascination (from Billy Wilder’s Love In The Afternoon) with footage of Rodney King’s beating. James Baldwin…

by Rick Prelinger [originally delivered 2016-11-19 at Other Cinema, revised 2017-2] We collected more We collected in new ways Now it is time to say why we collect You should all have copies of Brecht’s essay “Telling the…

OtherZine is inviting brief, descriptive Proposals for Issue 32 on ‘cinema of resistance.’ Issue 32 will be published in early February to coincide with opening night of the Spring Other Cinema calendar. These are hellishly dark times. What does cinema…